"Newer variant of COVID-19-causing virus dominates global" Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Jul 2020 4:04 p.m. PST |
… infections. "Bette Korber, a theoretical biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author of the study, noted, "The D614G variant first came to our attention in early April, as we had observed a strikingly repetitive pattern. All over the world, even when local epidemics had many cases of the original form circulating, soon after the D614G variant was introduced into a region it became the prevalent form." Geographic information from samples from the GISAID COVID-19 viral sequence database enabled tracking of this highly recurrent pattern, a shift in the viral population from the original form to the D614G variant. This occurred at every geographic level: country, subcountry, county, and city…"
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 29 Jul 2020 9:15 p.m. PST |
So… more contagious, but not making us sicker? |
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